Re:An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)
by hanniabu on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:19AM
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In the 60s there was a junk yard that some developer put a bunch of houses on top of near my house. Decades later nearly everyone that lived there developed cancer.
Re:An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)
by sacrosancty on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:26AM
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On that time scale, we can just build elsewhere instead. It's a complete non-issue once we know about the risks.
Re:An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)
by dvtrn on Monday May 02, 2022 @05:17PM
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Boston as well, iirc. And parts of Chicago (a city that was built ontop of an actual swamp)
Re:An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)
by robonerd on Monday May 02, 2022 @05:25PM
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Related; In mid 19th century, Entire neighborhoods of Chicago were lifted up on jackscrews to raise the street above the swamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
Re:An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)
by solveit on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:09PM
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We were able to lift entire neighbourhoods in the 19th century but now we can't even build houses...
Re:An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)
by WesternEdge on Monday May 02, 2022 @08:17PM
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Coastal commission's head would explode if we tried to lift a neighborhood.
Re:An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)
by thaumasiotes on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:36PM
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We can still build them now. It's a question of whether we're allowed.
> Eventually, in hundreds or thousands of years we will have to remediate that land.
Over that time scale the land automatically remediates itself. There's a hill in Rome made of a big pile of Roman garbage. The hill is more useful than the pots were.